Blog for the University of The Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute. Please feel free to share any post.

Field trips

Please note, these fieldtrips are for conference delegates only and are now full. Registation for the conference is now closed.

Thursday 20th October – all day (booked on registration form, conference delegates only)

Alternative tour of West Mainland Orkney

Ok, so we start the field trip at a large Neolithic stone circle, but the Ring of Brodgar is a focus for numerous issues to do with tourism, cruise ships, site management, landscape setting and energy. We then move onto the WWII Ness Battery overlooking the island of Hoy where wooden accommodation blocks survive with the wonderful mural of English country scenes survives in the canteen. A quick lunch stop in Stromness is followed by a visit to the Pier Arts Centre where a tour focuses on the themes of rurality and landscape amongst the leading collection of British Modernist art. This is followed by a tour of the EMEC renewable energy test site just around the coast where the Oyster wave device operated. The field trip finishes off with a trip to Kirbister Farm museum where the smell of peat smoke from the central hearth will fuel us for the rest of the conference.

9:45 Meet outside The Shore Hotel, Shore Street (near the harbour and Orkney Ferries offices). We will be in 3 minibuses.

10:00 Mini buses leave

10:30 Ring of Brodgar stone circle in the UNESCO Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site

Sunday 23rd October

Share this:

Like this:

LikeLoading...

Author

This BLOG has been created by The Archaeology Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands in beautiful Orkney. We aim to add features and news about our work on the islands and further afield on a regular basis.
Main author: Sean Page. Contact e-mail: archaeology@uhi.ac.uk Click here to send us an e-mail.
We would love to hear from you.
Enjoy !

We are in the top 50 archaeology blogs

Follow Blog via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.